Ready Meals

As our lives become increasingly hectic, the demand for fresh and frozen ready meals is on the rise, with a growing preference for high-quality gourmet options. People are seeking cultural and authentic culinary experiences through their meal choices. Additionally, the food service industry is expanding into new sectors like kindergartens, hospitals, and elder care facilities, creating a need for innovative ready meal concepts that are both delicious and nutritious.

Lactosan Cheese Powders can help you create ready meals that are rich in flavours and require fewer additives, paving the way for new and exciting meal solutions.

Lactosan Cheese Powder in a Vegetarian Rootpie

Perfect for every market

Our cheese powders are versatile and can enhance a wide range of ready meal applications, including lasagne, soufflés, fondues, breaded cheese sticks, pies, and pasties. Whether you're looking to add a distinct cheese flavour or balance and mask other tastes, our products are the perfect solution.

At Lactosan, we collaborate with you to develop new flavour profiles and enhance the umami and kokumi sensations in both meat and meat-free dishes. Cheese Powder serves as a functional ingredient, improving the final product by adding creaminess, boosting flavors, or catering to specific markets like hospitals and elder care facilities, where stronger taste profiles are often needed.

Popular cheese flavours for ready meals include Gorgonzola, extra hard Italian-style cheese, Cream Cheese, and Cheddar, perfect for classic Mac & Cheese.

Europe is the top region in global ready meal launches with cheese (Jan. '24 - June '24)

2024

W. Europe

17.51%

North America

6.19%

Asia

4.28%

Latin America

3.56%

East Europe

2.1%

Africa

1.27%

Australasia

1.18%

Middle East

0.66%

Replace the need for fresh cheese

We’ve been supporting customer needs for ready meals for years. Recently, our Cheese Powders have been instrumental in helping customers in Asia and Europe to add a distinctive cheese flavour to their products and greater convenience in their production process (such as easier dosage), replacing their need for fresh cheese.

Let’s explore opportunities together

At Lactosan we know exactly how Cheese Powder can help you to improve the quality of your ready meal products, as well as reduce unwanted ingredients and boost natural flavours. Contact us today to find out how we can help your business.